Master and Commander of the High Seas. Was successful fighting the Spanish. He sailed the Moray Firth during the Jacobite uprising of 1745.
Mary Aston is his second wife and not the mother of William.
He retired with Great Honors, but was not compensated for it.
[Dictionary of National Biography]
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